Improvement in shoe-fastenings



0. F. SYLVESTER.

Shoe-Fastening.

No. 198,165. Patented Dec. 11,1877.

N, PEFERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER WASMNQTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. SYLVESTER, OF BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN S HOE-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,165, dated December11, 1877 application filed November 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, CHARLES F. SYLvEsrER, ofBrockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Fastenings for Boots and Shoes,of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to a fastening device for boots and shoes; andconsists in a fastening device composed of an elastic strap, aholding-piece having prongs to enter the shoe, a slotted end piece, anda hook-piece, the holding and end pieces having cars, which are foldedor shut upon the strap, and caused to adhere thereto by means of burrsor equivalent notches.

Figure 1 represents, in top view, a fastening device constructed inaccordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a side view, and Fig. 3 anunder-side view, thereof; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6, details, showing theholding-piece and end piece and hook piece as struck from sheet metaland before they are bent into the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

The holding-piece is composed of a blank, a, as shown in Fig. 4, ithaving an ear, I), and two prongs, c d, the ear to be bent under andbackward, to embrace between it and the portion 2 of a the end of theelastic strap 0,

While the prongs c d are bent at right angles from the position shown inFig. 4 to that shown in Fig.. 2, so as to enter the upper or a tab orstrap of a shoe, after which the prongs are clinched, as shown in Fig.3. At the outer or free end of the strap 0 is an end piece, f, composedof a plate having ears 9 h and a slot, '5. These ears g h are foldedunder the. main part of blank f, so as to pinch and bind the elastichand. These ears I) g h, when folded underneath, are made to grasp theelastic strap 6 (see Fig. 3) between themselves and the-main portion ofeach blank a or f; and

in such condition the ears are indented or punched, as shown at Figs. 4,5, at Z, to cause the metal to project from the cars, so as to engageand hold the elastic strap firmly. The hook-piece j is composed'of aplate having a projection, k, which is subsequently folded, as shown inFigs. 1 and 3, to form a hook, p, to enter the slot 1; of the end piecef, and of prongs m n, to enter the strap of a low-cut shoe, or asuitable portion of the shoe upper. The blanks are folded on the dottedlines.

I claim I As an improved article of manufacture, a shoe-fasteningcomposed of an elastic strap, a holding-piece having an ear, I), andprongs c d to enter the shoe, and slotted end piece having ears 9 h, andthe hook-piece j, having a 1 hook, p, and prongs m n,to enter the shoe,the; ears being folded upon the ends of, and made to securely hold theends of, the strap by means of burrs or indentations, all substantiallyas described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 6th dayofNovember, A. D. 1875. r

G. F. SYLVESTER.

Witnesses EDWIN W. BROWN, GEO. H. EARL.

